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Some scenes from my Junior-year student film at Middlebury College, which also played at film festivals in New York, Boston, and North Carolina in 2002:
Fanfare was meant to refer to the container–the bookends and the constant audience presence–while Higher Education was the film-within-a-film (thus Fanfare for Higher Education).
I shot the 17-minute short during the first [...]
The ten best Hollywood movies of 2006 (pre-holiday/Oscar season edition)
0 Comments Published November 22nd, 2006 in Film.1. The Prestige
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Screenwriting teachers, this is your new Chinatown.
Maybe that’s an overstatement, but find me a finer-crafted screenplay (and film) this year, and I’ll gladly watch it a thousand times.
Well, maybe not a thousand times. [...]
Yesterday I wrote an article at DVguru titled 10 reasons you shouldn’t go to film school (update: a week later, I followed it up with my disingenuous 10 reasons you should go). Thanks to making the frontpage of Digg, the article garnered a lot of comments. Here’s my pick of the litter:
“Is it [...]
Notes from Armond White’s “An Auteur Study of Hype Williams”
3 Comments Published September 7th, 2006 in Film.About a month ago (yes, I’m still cleaning out my backlog of half-finished posts), I attended the Lincoln Center’s Scanners video series event, Believe the Hype: An Auteur Study of Hype Williams, “The Best Who Ever Did It”, with tongue firmly in cheek, notebook poised to capture the plethora of absurd quotes that would surely [...]
At long last, the not-at-all-anticipated part three of my Kongparison, wherein I jot down notes from watching each of the three Kongs (here are parts one and two).
King Kong (2005), dir. Peter Jackson:
Kongtech divides up nicely: stop-motion for the 30s, guy in an ape suit for the 70s, CGI for the 2000s. What’s it [...]
Last night after watching the Academy Awards I told a friend that I explicitly did not want to take the time or effort to explain why Crash understands race-relations in America at a pre-Rodney King level, or why Paul Haggis is more of a hack than Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. But then the [...]
